Puppy 4.3.1. it booted and ran on everything I tried it on. To me, it was a masterpiece. The only drawback is the lack of current browsers.
I am using 5.2.5 now. it has replaced 4.3.1 for a lot of the same reasons. I cannot understand why it does not get more attention in the forums. A lot of the other Puppies and Pups are good also, but there are so many I haven't been able to run them all. 5.2.5 with the Soldiers Point pic as background is working great for me. I still use M$ for scanners.
I have used Puppy since pre 1.0 and there have been many great Puppies.
Cheers

4.3.1 was a masterpiece! Sadly, Puppy development model does not always give continuity.

The next masterpiece was 5.2.8. I'm intrigued to know why you stick with 5.2.5. Did something get broken in 5.2.8?

5.2.8 does not work with very new hardware so I have run Slacko with that - but only because I have to.

I would say Lighthouse Pup is a masterpiece as well. It is not so small in the original sense of a small distro (around 100MB) but it is solid, beautiful and comes with everything most users need, including the ability to run Windows programs with the built-in Wine.

My three main workhorse Puppy versions are Lucid 528, because it just works great, and on older hardware Ttuuxxx's 432 v3 and Lucid Retro. Running the latest and greatest browsers on all 3 and everything works and is stable which is all I need.

I like Lucid 5.28, but couldn't get chromium working on it with my HP a800n (no longer have). I haven't used it after selling the desktop.

Slacko 5.3.3 PAE was also another I liked. I got Chromium, Opera working great as well as Transmission Bit Torrent. Also was able to configure Compiz to run on it. It was installed on a Dell Vostro desktop (triple boot WinXP, Ubuntu 10.04, Slacko 5.3.3) that I sold, so once it was gone, I haven't used 5.3.3 much. Haven't tried 5.4 yet.

kros54
Joined: 17 May 2009Posts: 106Location: member of Hungarian Puppy Linux Community

Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2013, 05:41 Post subject:

The 4.x series is founded on the Hungarian Puppy Linux Community. From the beginning of the work I'm involved in, I made ​​50 hungarian puplet.
Made two very good versions: 4.3.1 and Lucid 5.25
These statistics show that the most popular download.
Unfortunately, the Slacko, Wary, and Precise too many errors, discarding proven solutions. They do not understand.

What is your favourite Puppy distro and why did you choose that distro?

In period 2011-2012: Quirky Linux 1.40

1)Web camera Microsoft NX-6000 was working like in Ubuntu.
2)Not a super huge set of databases.
3)Acquaintanceship with different packages which are for installation of programs. For installation of program Linux user has an opportunity to use such a suitable packages as: pet, sfs, rpm, deb, txz, cafpkg.
4)Files, which are required for installation of NVidia driver, were accessible.
5)Acceptable icon theme is built-in.
6)Acceptable JWM theme is built-in.
7)An opportunity to temporarily close the Internet for ROOT is built-in.
8)An opportunity to receive additional RAM space at booting from CD.
9)Files with addresses of built-in programs are built-in.
10)I've found an additional way how to read MAN pages after some search through Google.

I've been with Puppy since around 0.98 I believe it was? I'm sure I'm wrong of course. But I became a serious Puppian at version 1.0.2 and then switched over to Grafpup 1.0 ( based upon Puppy 1.0.4 I think at the time ) and this is when a German user named Mark took me under his wing and really crammed my greycells full of info regarding Linux and all the awesome things it could do. I'll forever be thankful to this kind man.

But as to my favourite of all time version(s)? My utmost of all would be Puppy-4.2.1 where Warren was the head community director of getting that work of art out - and mark my words folks! - 4.2.1 was truly a work of art! This departed from the usual "plain jane" JWM desktop and instead featured IceWM. The Community banded together and showed exactly what Puppy could do when it came to a "beautiful desktop GUI". Newer people coming to Puppy, IMHO, take Puppy's beauty for granted not realising what we once looked like and I fear how this was much to our detriment to the Linux Community over all. Now? I believe us to be the classiest distro bar none on the net. And I'm not just saying this because I'm a Puppy afficianado either.

But I ramble...

After 4.2.1, which I used for literally ages, I didn't have another "favourite" until Lucid-Pup rolled around. 5.2.8 and 3-Headed-Pup ( based upon Lucid-5.2.8 ) became my next long-term favourites and workhorses. In fact, I still have them installed upon my machine today ( Oups! excuse me... make that 3HD which is installed on this machine ) and 3HD is set as the "default boot partition" - meaning it's my major workhorse per se and the one I choose to boot into the most.

After that? The recent LXpups put out by Jejy69 are simply stunning for their beauty, reliability, and stability - not to mention the sheer amount of features available to the user by the number of desktop environments he's made optional via .sfs files, and the software available to the user according to the compiled base - either through the PPM, or in the case of his "Lubuntu-Pup" based Puppy, synaptic.

And I've taken up enough bandwidth with my ramblings. Grab an LXpup near you and give it a spin.

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